Finally, "things are starting to click"

Things are starting to click… if you have had problems with the DEN or StreamlineSC page please accept Discovery’s apologies. The issues seem to be clearing up as I type. I myself have had some frustrations to deal with … no STAR status or blog access BUT the folks at Discovery made it all ok. Brad, Jannita, and especially Steve really took care of me and the issues with the page. I just wanted to send a big THANK YOU to the Discovery team for helping us get through this web page conversion.

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I pride myself on my lectures. I was voted “Best Lecturer” in the 2013 Sherwood High School yearbook. I’ve been told that my lectures are easily understood, engaging, interactive with plenty of student discourse–and I’m pretty darn funny! My students consistently scored very well on the Advanced Placement U.S. history exam. So what’s the issue? Lecturing works.

Kari Byron (Mythbusters, Head Rush) is incredibly passionate about science, and she’s joining an increasingly large number of educators, parents, and celebrities in urging young girls to brush aside “nerdy” stereotypes that have plagued them for years — and get them to explore STEM opportunities and careers. We caught up with Kari at SXSWedu this

How can we make the 63,000 questions we ask in a year better? We ask our students a lot of questions. Questioning is the most widely used teaching strategy behind the classic lecture. (See my previous blog post about the debate over lecturing in social studies.) Research tells us we ask 300-400 questions a day, and as many